Plagiarism, using someone else's work without attribution, has become a serious problem, especially with onset of the Internet that makes it easy to cut and paste entire selections. Students have failed because they cheated; professionals ha…
Read more >>Stumble This! A congressional report used by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) to question the validity of the science behind Global Warming in a 2006 hearing was highly plagiarized, according to experts who reviewed it. "The report was integral to congress…
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The New Black Panthers and the pattern Fox News aggressively promoting spurious allegations against DOJ. Taking a cue from Right-wing blogs and The Washington Times , Fox News has spent the past week aggressively promoting allegations t…
Read more >>Yes I will get to the fraudulent claims that Global denialists have been pushing that our planet has actually cooled since 1998 and will continue to cool for years to come. But first, just for fun, let's take a look at the weather outside. A…
Read more >>Investigation clears scientist of any wrongdoing over email controversy Penn State investigation: "No substance to the allegation against" Climate scientist Mann. In November 2009, emails were stolen from the servers of the Climatic Res…
Read more >>Glenn Reynolds: Higher Education's bubble is about to burst Published: Jun 06, 2010 It's a story of an industry that may sound familiar. The buyers think what they're buying will appreciate in value, making them rich in the future. The product …
Read more >>Editor's note: Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway co-wrote "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming," just out from Bloomsbury Press. Oreskes is a Professor of histor…
Read more >>In today's partisan political Climate, Science has inevitably become a political football. But I can't remember anything quite as nasty -- or as politically skewed -- as Rep. Joe Barton's recent attack on scientists whose views on Global Warming …
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